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NEWS OF FREEFX)RT
SURROUNDING TOWNS
Official Paper, Village of Freeport
Nassau County Reyiew
FIVE CENTS A COPY
YOUR NEWS STANDS
FItEEPORT, N. v., FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1920
V«L XXUI, No. 22
Hi l«
HUGO DINNER A
BRILLIANT AFFAIR
Garden City Hotel b Filled
With Prc»ninent People
of Long bland
"AUNT BETSY" PHILLIPS
Well Known Roosevclt Woman Dies! At the Age of Seventy-Six
Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips of Roosevelt, better Icnown by the community as "Aunt Betsey," died at her home on the comer of Nassau road and Hemp¬ stead Boultivard? Saturday aftemoon. She was seventy-six years of age.
Mrs. Philips has been one of the I mo.st prominent figures and best loved i characters in the town and has lived; here all of her life. She waa bom in j the holiae she died in, and the home- { stead haa been in the possession ofj the family for a hundred and fifty I years.
Wiilet Phillips, her husband, died | yiUage Board Satisfied With"
about forty years years ago, and she' ^»
is the laat of eleven children. Last
year "Aunt Betsey" did her bit when
she gave the town a plot of ftroUnd
near her home on which they erected
a memorial tablet to the boya who
"went west."
She was a member of St. Paul's:, , . • ... . , ... •
Episcopal Church in Roosevelt, and i'°<^*1 business, they reported on their the funeral was held at her home on l^riP ^ Brian, Ohio, and Auburn, \. \'.. Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Ser- j where they went to inspect oil engines
MUNICIPAL PLANT TO HAVE OIL ENGINES
Hundreds Unite in Grand Ovation *
The historic and aristocratic Gar- City Hotel, at Garden City, was the scene of a brilliant assemblage on Saturday evening when several hun¬ dred citizens of Nassau and Suffolk • Counties came to pay homage to Fran¬ cis M. HuKo, Secretary of the State of New York.
The sea of faces contained many who are the crest of the political waves, and the backbone and sinew of the Republican party in Nassau and Suffolk Counties was present with his charming lady.
The crystal chandeliers of the grand vices vvere conducted by ArehdeaconS for thu purpose of ilotermininn; wheth- dining room of the old hostelry scin-j Duffield of Garden City^ Interment j „ „^ „„t (^ ^„„,j y^ t^e-best policy tillated flashes of sparkling light that was •" t"e Flushing Cemetery ! *" ^
found an answering gleam in the ¦ _____ _
iS61 . iqi7
A COSTLY NEWSPAPER | FREEPORT IN THE
aVIL WAR DAYS
j Inspection of That Type—
Cost, About One-half
I
I The Village Board met Wednesday ! afternoon and among other items of
. white shoulders and bright jewels of the many ladies present, and while gatherings of prominent people have been secn-in th.it self-same room, non*- have presented a more striking picture
:( than that of :<*kturday evening.
If it is possible to have democracy at a Republican forum, it was there then, for the hrst part of the dinner as taken up with the singing of songs \ore than a decade old, whose swing d rythm have never been equalled in the unsteady tempo of modern mu¬ sic.
Mrs. Edviard C. Conway of Albany, accompanied by Miss Annie Eldridge of Freeport, sang some of Secretary Hugo's favorite songs most charm¬ ingly, aniong them being "Annie Lau¬ rie.'
Supervisor Hiram R. Smith was toastmaster and introduced each of the brilliant speakers with just the proper amount of wit and dignity. The two men who were responsible for the i»fficient arrangements of the dinner ,and for the absolute precision and thoroughness ^f everything that was done, were -A.' E. Harvey and George Aring, both of Freeport. To these gentlemen a great deal of credit was due, and given.
Col. Theodore Roosevclt, and it is good that the name lives in its entir¬ ety, wos to have been the first speak- ,er, of the evening, but owing to a rail¬ road accident in West Virginia, it was Impossible for him to be preaerft. Hia telegram was read, e-xpressing regrets. Nassau County was represented, therefor, by Hon. Thomas McWhinney, iwho paid tribute to Long Island. L Aniericanism was the keynote of tho Jvening, and formed the basic princi¬ ple of the speeches. While non-politi¬ cal, the dinner soon resolved itself in¬ to an immense nominating committee and the name of Hugo was linked with the title of Governor (future tense) many times during the evening.
Hon. George IJ. J'^urman ably rep¬ resented Suffolk County in his usual¬ ly brilliant style,, laying great stress on the fact that America must co-op-
I erate and product, in order t oavcrt a
f time that would pale the Reign of Terror in France.
Miss Portia H. Willis made one of
rthe most forceful speeches of the en¬ tire evening. She is at the head of the Roosevelt Memorial Association
EMBLEM
to install them in the municipal plant in Freeport. There was a universal favorable aspect towards the oil en¬ gine, and this type will be installed in the near future.
.The First National Bank reported that the water n-ain of the villa>.;t was leaking into their cesspool, causing annoyance and trouble, and a commit¬ tee was appointed to co-operate with the bank officials in tl e matter.
John Hartmann, Chief of Police, •vas instru.t^d to obtain .suitable flaijs tor the village honor roll and viliave flagpole for Memorial Day.
The Great South B.ir Ferry Co. and Freeport Railroad, whose title ia lon¬ ger than the line, was in danger of Icsing its franchise until Julius Bind¬ rim, owner, lessee, board of directors, operator and switchman, appeared he- fore tho Boird and conf •«'.soH that the operation of such a project was a source of worry and trouble. His evi¬ dent desire t oserve the best interests tli Fveepor tmade a favorable iinpres-
Brooklyn Blue Sox Fall Before ^'°r . ^ , .^ ., p„„,^
¦' A letter was read from the Roose¬
velt Civic Association requesting the co-operation of the Freeport Village Board in the matter of a fifteen min¬ ute headway on the trolley during working hours, and a resolution was passed favoring such Tieadway be¬ tween Freeport and Mineola from C to 10 a. m. and 4 to 8 p. m.
The resignation of Sergt. Gross¬ man from the police force, was ac¬ cepted by the Board with a .gond deal of regret. Sergt. Grossman has made an excellent record and has won many friends by his attention to duty, and he will carry their best wishes in whatever business he may enter. ¦ 4-
iMEMORLVL LIBRARY PROJECT STARTED
r
AMERICAN LEGION
ROUTS INVADERS
Onslaught of Yankee Di¬ vision By Score of 12-11
After a aeries of spring manoeuvres and setting up exercises the American Legion rallied round the bats Satur¬ day aftemoon and mopped up the strong machine gun nest of Blue Sox of Brooklyn to the tune of 12 to 11.
The ex-soldiers had been greatly strengthened by the addition of sev¬ eral recruits who gave a good account of themselves under fire. Naver, El¬ lison, Cheshire and Edwards grabbed the majority of the hits that were made and Bove at 1st nabbed some bad throws in time.to prevent blood¬ shed. Cheshire, who was on guard at Post No. 2, playe<l a good game and
Board and Room for Teachers
Only one reply has been received in Stewart in the field caught some high | psponsc to the notice regarding explosives before they had an oppor-1 boarding places for teachers. The tunity to hit the ground and go off. prospect certainly is not very encour-
Ellison's bat brought in four prison ers. '*"'
Next SatuV^Jay the new grounds at Atlantic avenue and Bedell street will be well filled to see the Legion trim the Brooklyn Cooties (I mean Ly¬ ceum, and the battle is scheduled to start at 3:45 p. ra.
Following ia the score: FREEPORT
r. h. p.o.-~a. c. ^•and is"active among the suffrage work-!Beck, cf _ 2 13 10
ers of New York State. Miss Willis is a daughter of Roslyn, N. Y., and has full claim to the title of one hundred per cent. American. Her father was Colonel Benjamin Willis of the New i. York Volunteers, and upon his return -from the Civil War he was presented ¦with a silk flag by the citizens of I Hempstead. This flag is one of Miss Willis' most cherished possessions. A really unfair attempt was made to in¬ duce her to present it to the new Town 11 of Hempstead.
Hon. W. W. Cocks was unable to __„d, and his place was taken by „ayer Speindrik, representing Kings ¦ Couhty in a most able and capable L manner. He expressed the thought 'f^Hott Kings County would preaent Hu- it-foism to the polls. Mr. Speindrik has 'just completed a tour of the United 1; States and stated that throughout the f South, West and Southwest there is a general protest against things as they are today.
Harry Walker of Brooklyn, Grand j Secretary of the I. O. O. F., played a 'iflo'wing tribute to the "next Gover- bor."
When Secretary Hugo rose after the j graceful introduction by the toastma.s- I ter, he was given a wonderful ovation ith«t brought the color of pride to the jeheeks of his wife, whose eyes spark- tlcd through tears of appreciation for tke testimony of faith in her disting¬ uished husband. Men and women ijtttkSd on their feet and cheered for ^^'-eral minutes, and the animated tore of stirring enthusiasm was aps but a picture of a scene that 11 occur on a later date, when elec- rfeturns pour in to notify the that a right man has been ele- to tehright place, re'.ary Hugo paid tribute to Nai- Cbunty and Freeport, in that he recruited both of his able secre- from here; Howard Osterhout 'George Aring. He spoke of the tSng link hetwetn uounties am* on Long Island, amely, auto-< es. "There were six hundred _^nd automobiles registered in 'fork Stato this year, und they down the Merrick Road every y," he said.
spoke of good roads, as an as- Good reads mean taxation and he in favor of suflkient taxation to ikp expenses of the government (juavor of a surplus throagh masBs- lihted out tht agricultural pos- of Long Island and was in ef an advertising campaign theso lines. A note of warning ded in tlte statement that the j (Continued on Page i)
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aging. It must be that the citizens of the village do not realize the serious¬ ness of the situation, for surely the teachers must have places in which to live if they are to come here and teach. Fraeport can't have schools without teachers and teachers cannot remain here unless homes are open to them at a fair rate of compensation. May we not urge that the gravity of the situa¬ tion be appreciated and that within the next few days a most awkward .situation be relieved.
G. F. uBOIS, Supt. of Schools.
ONE THING MORE
Y^ou gave your sons and loaned your dollars when the country wanted them. Will you remember the men of 1801 this year and see that there are cars enough for their use this year? Call W. H. Patterson, Freeport 57-R for information.
FREEPORT'S SACRIFICE
Mabel Guest Thomas W. Benham
REFUSED SERVICE
Desire to Get Names of Any Cannot Obtain Gas
Who
WILLIAM H. PATTERSON
Commander of the D.' P. B. Mott Post, Grand Army td the Republic
> A DOUBLE HEADER
Legion \o Clash With Bushwick A. A. On'^Memoriai Day At Home
It has been reported that the Nas¬ sau & Suffolk Lighting Company has refused to give service to consumers even after the consumers have offered to lay their own pipes ?nd dig their own trenches, in fact, make everything ready to put in a meter and connect it up.
It is requested that anyone who has been refused such service by the gas company, give their names to the Vil¬ lage Clerk of F'reeport at the village office at 46 West Merrick road.
TheodoreDeKrujjH William F. Downs Witliam E. Cusko Charles P. Gould Stanley E. Hart Harold C. Hubert John Intellisano Charles Jordan Harold E. Maxon Henry T. Mohr Henry Morrison James C. Rich Arthur J. Smith William C. Story John J. Thurston Walter Whittaker Townsend C. Young
Committees Formed .to Plan
Ways and Means of Getting
Proposition Under Way
The Memorial Library proposition for Freeport is assuming businesslike proportions following a meeting of the committee on Wednesday evening. The committee in charge of the ar¬ rangements are as follows: S. R. Smith, chairman; A. T. Davisson, H. R. Smith and Sidney Swezey, vice
Quest of Sunday Reading Has Very Disastrous Results
Cecil fi. Johnson, editor of t\e Re- j G. A. R. RecoUecticHM Of view, had a narrow escape from seri-! "Undm RtlT' P m r\e
ous injury Sunday aftemoon when he 1 *^"«« put ranera<m Uf
was thrown off a bicycle <mi Bedell street.
He had ridden down for the Sunday paper and had purchased a lamp for his wheel, allowing the dealer to affix
I it to one of the prongs of the front
'fork. On his way homeward the lan:p
I became loosened and swung around
I into the wheel, between the spokes.
I The bicycle stopped as though it had
I met a stone wall, but the editor con¬ tinued his flight until brought into forcefjl contact with the unsympa¬ thetic earth.
New stars of the heavens were dis¬ covered, and a hasty glance at the
wheel brought forth these items; Per-:""''. "'^'*''" looking him over, the manently disable through rips and i <^''U'ting ofRct-r turned to him >
th« D. B. P. Mott Post
William H. Patterson, better known and loved as "Uncle Bill," who i.. the commander of the G. A. R. Post in F^reeport, has drawn upon the treas¬ ures of his memory for incidents suit¬ able to this time in connection with the G. A. R. as it concerns Freeport
In the stirring days of 1861 when -var clouds broke ever the Jand as *hev ^•d m 1917, Mr. Patterson was one ot the first to enlist and he went to the recruiting officer of the 2nd New York cavalry Largeness of stature is n.,t one of "Uncle Bill's" qualification.s
temporarily disable, one face, two I hands and one shoulder. i
Returning con.sciousness taxed his'
presidents; S. F. Pearsall, treasurer; friendship for the Street Commission J. H. Ellison, secretary; Richard Reni-'er to the extreme, and prevented the sen, assistant secretary,
The Plan and Scope Committee were j were on their way to church
elected as follows: A. T. Davisson, G. —
H. Hunt. J. H. Ellison, J. .M .Harring-' ton, Richard Remsen. The commit-. tee reported that there would be a publicity campaign from June 1 to | 21, consiftin.g of an essay contest, pla- | cards, buttons, window cardi^ mem-, bership certificates, etc.
There will be a subscription .drive i starting June 21 and on the first day j the American Legion, Elks and other organizations will oe asked to parade.' The parade will terminate in front of j the First National Bank v/here a nia.'s | meeting will be held. The Ways and i Means Committee will canvass for} large subscriptions, starting at once.
'The scheme of payment is to have: a subscription card with an optional | VrvTE'll A VIO fvrj TII/A payment, on which subscribers can »I-< ULIi/li iiJ Ua 1 TT V make either quarterly or monthly 1
payments, all in one year. Certificates will be issued to all subscribers, ir¬ respective of amounts and all organ¬ izations are urged to appoint commit¬ tees. The general subscription com¬ mittee is as follows: J. H. Ellison, A. T. Davisson, Donald Mackay, S. P. Pettit, Henry McCord, Phoebe Schol¬ ey, Agnea Earon and Stella Foreman. The clubs and fraternities committee, E. S. Keogh, G. B. Hunt, Harry Bar¬ asch. School Activities, C. D. Baker, Agnes Earon, George DuBois, David Sutherland, jr. Meetings Commit¬ tee. John M. Harrington. Parade Com¬ mittee, E. N. Edwards, H. R. Smith. Stationary and Supplies, Harold Smith James Sutphin, Arthur Frank. Pub¬ licity and Press, James E. Stiles, C. H. Kerr, Fred Howell. American Le gion, Richard Remsen, Harold Brown, Frank Devlin. Churches, J. Sidney Gould, E. A. Burnes, R. H. Scott, C. H. Miller, W. F. Coffey, J. L. OToole, Erwin Dennet. The headquarters of the committees will be the village of¬ fice and the next meeting wiil be Sat¬ urday, May 29.
There has been some comment on the question of whether or not it would be better to have a community house instead cf a library. There are many reasons why a library is best. For one thing, a community house would be used the most for gcod times, danc
tears, one suit, one hat, one. front | "Run along son fh«. ^..k i ' '','''''''¦ wheel, one lamp; and the following, the horse «nH *"""''' ''''
tpmnorarilv Hisnhlv nna far-o f«,« I "no miSS you, and horses
are worth i250 apiece."
navy'officV"""*^' ''^*'"' '° ^^"^ er 10 the extreme, and prevented the | suits. He enhllf^T"/* i*".** ^*"*'' ^^' shocking of some young people who "p-„,K ./"""^^f "» landsman on the
"• **"=- ~ "•—" ..T,-\ ^ '='»'v«rted cruiser, and
isen-ed on her until he was discharged
Civil War was Commander Ward and lhe was killed on the "Vt^.^t. .,' , 'a few foof , rreeborn," onlv
u.o.. . ^ turned loose in the into
Uruns with good effect. ^'*'^' "'"^
\ur,A .^atter.son came to New"Ynrk
¦Sie'miralt^f^iTl.l'dr"^ gns very ^'enr'A"?L°'?oif^eS^^^^
terjiis.ne,s, catering to a"large°c',1:_ . "V^'-'e Bill" Patterson is verv «,.f
AMERICAN LEGION EMBLEM.
. E. F. and the^rmm^^rate relief'^;
of
WARS ARE UNITED
American Legions of 1866 and
1917 to Celebrate This Me-
morial Day Together
The William Clinton Story Post of the American Legion will unite with the D. B. P. Mott Post of the G A. R. in celebrating Memorial Day in their church services and graveyard cere¬ monies at the Presbyterian Church.
The two Posts, representing the Le¬ gion of 18G6 and the Legion of 1917, will also co-operate in decorating the graves located in Freeport.
The.7 'will march to the cemetery and after hte parade the, Woman's Re¬ lief Corpa will serve refreshments, i
Rev. J. Sidney Gould will officiate at „ The D. B. P. Mott Poat of the G. A. the church and has extended an invi- R- was organized, in December, 1804, tation to all ex-service jjien of Free-j""'' was named .after a. Mr.s. Mott port and vicinity to attend. |Wh„.,j liomc itood on the properly I
For the church services on Sunday, ij*"' living n at the present lime. She May 30, the organizations will meet i n"*i two uoys, fourteen and fifteen at the G. A. R. Headquarters on Mer-1 y^''"^ of at'e. who -,<;:;i. to the war as rick road, between Church street and ''rummers. Thoy never came back and
G. A. R. Recollections
By WILLIAM H. PATTERSON
Main street, at 9:15, and will then
marcii to the church .
On Monday they will assemble at
the G. A. R. Headquarters at 8:45 a.
m. The parade will start at 9 o'clock ,.,,-.r,-„„ ,,,,1,., „„„.. sharp. It is hoped that this y6ar, ., es, etc.. where a tablet bearing the 1 there will be plenty of autos for the Abrams of the Mann^^ and myself, names of Freeport's immortal dead | veterans of the Civil War. in-order [pn^e hundred and^thirty-seye^ me- would necessarily be in the,midst of I that all may attend. W noi.sy laughter.about all of the time. |
she hunted all over the south in an ef¬ fort lo locale them, or newa of then;, but without avail.
At the time we were organized ther j were sixteen charier inenibers and out of tho.se sixteen, but two are left, Coles
(Continued on Page 5.)
H. Patter-! hers were mustered in and at the pres-
The quiet of a library is a more fit ting setting for the memories of those splendid chaps and one girl, who went away and died that we might live. The associations of the army an never ba forgotten and there are times when every aervice man in the village will want to go where he can sit quietly and live over again the days of un¬ selfish courage that he caw manifested in the actions of his "buddies" whose names will be carved in metal and plnced iirion the wall that all may see and remember.
AN INVITATION
The Woman's Reftef Corps and the Grand Army men of Freeport extend an invitation to all fraternal orders to take part in. their Memorial Day services. Please meet at the lodge rooms, Merrick road, at 9:30 a. m. on Monday.
This is to be a day never-to-be-flfr- gotten, in honoring the boys of '61, '98 and '17.
(Milwaukee Sentinel) Eau Claire—James Lowden, 60 yrs. old, an old pioneer resident of this city dropped dead in a saloon here. He died shortly after.
Decoration Day will be fully ob¬ served by the American Legion base¬ ball team, for they will endeavor to lecorate th.e scrappy Bushwick A. A. with wlo large defeats.
The first game will start at 1:45 p. ttl. sharp at the grounda on the cor¬ ner of Atlantic avenue and Bedel'. I street. This will be an excellent op-1 portunity to ice tlie strf/nglhened Leg-1 ion aires in aetidir and ought to furn-1 Ish excellent amusement for the af-1 ternoon.' Tbe Bushwick A. A., is no I stranger to Freeport and has always' been welcomed for their ability to put up a fa.<!t gsme.
luEOT wis" forget"
On <:hi8 Mehiorial Day while ve are remembering those who have gone away, let us not forget the only Free- port man Who'died in the Spanish- American War ,
CHARUSS GOMBERT Co. X, Tlst Regt., N. Y* V.
MERRIT CUTLER
President of the William Clinton Story Post, American Legion, and Winner of the D. S. C. and Croix de f' Guerre
nVE DOLLAR HNES
Judge A. N. JuhnFon Colleetx Unifi^rih Amount from Crop, of Hpcederni
Tuesday waa a fine day in more ways than one, as was attested by the ippearance in court of numercitt sum¬ mons, but nobody to answer them.
Oflficer Hahn had rapped the usual harvest of ill>eeders on Sunday, but whether from fear of genial Judge Johnson or for other reasons, they did not al] come to pay the price of fast driving. The cases on hand wc-* qnickly disposed with a series of five dollar bills as each person was fiiujd that amount and allowed to deport.
The following r>ad burners were pra-«ent: Arthur Fox, Brooklyn; L. J. -Gillen, Hempiitead (Officer William-
¦Miji; Aa|«str Nillong, Richmond Hill; ..„
hnd Joaeph Schweitzer, of Lindenhorst.j And so it goes, ««ch year'aor ranks
EXHIBIT OF SCHOOL WORK
On Jane 9 at 3:30 p. m., in the Grove Street School, there, will be an exhibit of work done by papils of ali the schools, to which yoa are cordially tn- •itedl.
Thia will include: Sendsg, cooking, manoaj train^ig and irawing.
Ligbt rcCraawMRitf will aa served.
ent time wdlv ha^ twentyeight mem¬ bers, and only about half of these are able to come to meetinga.
I came here forty-nine years ago and at that time there were only abuut five hundred people in the village. We elected John Anderson as our firat commander and several othera served a term, but for the last twenty-five years 1 have had tlje post.and it is one that requires a great deal of time and attention tu a mass of details.
After the war there were men who came home in the flush of victory who would not claim any pension or other benefits that the Government had of¬ fered. When these men died it fell upon 'his comradea to keep his widow from want. The funds of the Post were insufficient and Archie Wallace, who was a member of the "Town Board at that time, went before the Board and explained the situation, with the result that an appropriation was made a part of the town budget, for the use of dependent veterans of the Civil War. Sometimes we use all of it and more, too, and sometimes we 'are able to refund a part of the amount, but it was due to Archie Wallace that we iiave been able to help our comrades at all.
Thia Memorial Day we are plannln,^ to flag the graves in about eigh ceme¬ teries and two hundred and fifty flags have been purchased for the purpose. We find ourselves, handicapped to a certain extent in our preparations. (We do not wiah to quote Mr. Patter son on the following, but in the greai rush of things of iate years, the vet¬ erans of other wars have been for¬ gotten to a certain extent, and the of¬ fers of antomobiles on Decoration Day have not been as numerous :is in oth^ er years.)
It is expected that we shall visit El¬ mont, Rockville Centre, Freeport and up Jerusalem way this vear, and that reminda me of an incident that hap¬ pened on another Memorial Day. W w«i!re asked to come to Rockaway and visit our comrades, and apon arriv¬ ing there, ^ked for a grave over which we could conduct our services. One was assigned to as and latar on a man from New YoA notified oa that our simple flag was wortli a good deal to him for the grave we Iwd decorated was that of his father. *Wt hiid re¬ membered when he had forgotten!
.re becoming thinaar and tfaiimer an I wo arc being r^^rated to tbe dusty shelves of the paat. Tba 4ays ef '61 are days that wili aevar Ueome dim to OS, The fighting fn those days of the frar was as fierea aa the world has ever keen and the loma at Prmrpart did their bit gloriously, even as ihey have In tha Qnpat war of the vorU just
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NEWS OF FREEFX)RT
SURROUNDING TOWNS
Official Paper, Village of Freeport
Nassau County Reyiew
FIVE CENTS A COPY
YOUR NEWS STANDS
FItEEPORT, N. v., FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1920
V«L XXUI, No. 22
Hi l«
HUGO DINNER A
BRILLIANT AFFAIR
Garden City Hotel b Filled
With Prc»ninent People
of Long bland
"AUNT BETSY" PHILLIPS
Well Known Roosevclt Woman Dies! At the Age of Seventy-Six
Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips of Roosevelt, better Icnown by the community as "Aunt Betsey," died at her home on the comer of Nassau road and Hemp¬ stead Boultivard? Saturday aftemoon. She was seventy-six years of age.
Mrs. Philips has been one of the I mo.st prominent figures and best loved i characters in the town and has lived; here all of her life. She waa bom in j the holiae she died in, and the home- { stead haa been in the possession ofj the family for a hundred and fifty I years.
Wiilet Phillips, her husband, died | yiUage Board Satisfied With"
about forty years years ago, and she' ^»
is the laat of eleven children. Last
year "Aunt Betsey" did her bit when
she gave the town a plot of ftroUnd
near her home on which they erected
a memorial tablet to the boya who
"went west."
She was a member of St. Paul's:, , . • ... . , ... •
Episcopal Church in Roosevelt, and i'°.;t was leaking into their cesspool, causing annoyance and trouble, and a commit¬ tee was appointed to co-operate with the bank officials in tl e matter.
John Hartmann, Chief of Police, •vas instru.t^d to obtain .suitable flaijs tor the village honor roll and viliave flagpole for Memorial Day.
The Great South B.ir Ferry Co. and Freeport Railroad, whose title ia lon¬ ger than the line, was in danger of Icsing its franchise until Julius Bind¬ rim, owner, lessee, board of directors, operator and switchman, appeared he- fore tho Boird and conf •«'.soH that the operation of such a project was a source of worry and trouble. His evi¬ dent desire t oserve the best interests tli Fveepor tmade a favorable iinpres-
Brooklyn Blue Sox Fall Before ^'°r . ^ , .^ ., p„„,^
¦' A letter was read from the Roose¬
velt Civic Association requesting the co-operation of the Freeport Village Board in the matter of a fifteen min¬ ute headway on the trolley during working hours, and a resolution was passed favoring such Tieadway be¬ tween Freeport and Mineola from C to 10 a. m. and 4 to 8 p. m.
The resignation of Sergt. Gross¬ man from the police force, was ac¬ cepted by the Board with a .gond deal of regret. Sergt. Grossman has made an excellent record and has won many friends by his attention to duty, and he will carry their best wishes in whatever business he may enter. ¦ 4-
iMEMORLVL LIBRARY PROJECT STARTED
r
AMERICAN LEGION
ROUTS INVADERS
Onslaught of Yankee Di¬ vision By Score of 12-11
After a aeries of spring manoeuvres and setting up exercises the American Legion rallied round the bats Satur¬ day aftemoon and mopped up the strong machine gun nest of Blue Sox of Brooklyn to the tune of 12 to 11.
The ex-soldiers had been greatly strengthened by the addition of sev¬ eral recruits who gave a good account of themselves under fire. Naver, El¬ lison, Cheshire and Edwards grabbed the majority of the hits that were made and Bove at 1st nabbed some bad throws in time.to prevent blood¬ shed. Cheshire, who was on guard at Post No. 2, playe A DOUBLE HEADER
Legion \o Clash With Bushwick A. A. On'^Memoriai Day At Home
It has been reported that the Nas¬ sau & Suffolk Lighting Company has refused to give service to consumers even after the consumers have offered to lay their own pipes ?nd dig their own trenches, in fact, make everything ready to put in a meter and connect it up.
It is requested that anyone who has been refused such service by the gas company, give their names to the Vil¬ lage Clerk of F'reeport at the village office at 46 West Merrick road.
TheodoreDeKrujjH William F. Downs Witliam E. Cusko Charles P. Gould Stanley E. Hart Harold C. Hubert John Intellisano Charles Jordan Harold E. Maxon Henry T. Mohr Henry Morrison James C. Rich Arthur J. Smith William C. Story John J. Thurston Walter Whittaker Townsend C. Young
Committees Formed .to Plan
Ways and Means of Getting
Proposition Under Way
The Memorial Library proposition for Freeport is assuming businesslike proportions following a meeting of the committee on Wednesday evening. The committee in charge of the ar¬ rangements are as follows: S. R. Smith, chairman; A. T. Davisson, H. R. Smith and Sidney Swezey, vice
Quest of Sunday Reading Has Very Disastrous Results
Cecil fi. Johnson, editor of t\e Re- j G. A. R. RecoUecticHM Of view, had a narrow escape from seri-! "Undm RtlT' P m r\e
ous injury Sunday aftemoon when he 1 *^"«« put ranera
th« D. B. P. Mott Post
William H. Patterson, better known and loved as "Uncle Bill," who i.. the commander of the G. A. R. Post in F^reeport, has drawn upon the treas¬ ures of his memory for incidents suit¬ able to this time in connection with the G. A. R. as it concerns Freeport
In the stirring days of 1861 when -var clouds broke ever the Jand as *hev ^•d m 1917, Mr. Patterson was one ot the first to enlist and he went to the recruiting officer of the 2nd New York cavalry Largeness of stature is n.,t one of "Uncle Bill's" qualification.s
temporarily disable, one face, two I hands and one shoulder. i
Returning con.sciousness taxed his'
presidents; S. F. Pearsall, treasurer; friendship for the Street Commission J. H. Ellison, secretary; Richard Reni-'er to the extreme, and prevented the sen, assistant secretary,
The Plan and Scope Committee were j were on their way to church
elected as follows: A. T. Davisson, G. —
H. Hunt. J. H. Ellison, J. .M .Harring-' ton, Richard Remsen. The commit-. tee reported that there would be a publicity campaign from June 1 to | 21, consiftin.g of an essay contest, pla- | cards, buttons, window cardi^ mem-, bership certificates, etc.
There will be a subscription .drive i starting June 21 and on the first day j the American Legion, Elks and other organizations will oe asked to parade.' The parade will terminate in front of j the First National Bank v/here a nia.'s | meeting will be held. The Ways and i Means Committee will canvass for} large subscriptions, starting at once.
'The scheme of payment is to have: a subscription card with an optional | VrvTE'll A VIO fvrj TII/A payment, on which subscribers can »I-< ULIi/li iiJ Ua 1 TT V make either quarterly or monthly 1
payments, all in one year. Certificates will be issued to all subscribers, ir¬ respective of amounts and all organ¬ izations are urged to appoint commit¬ tees. The general subscription com¬ mittee is as follows: J. H. Ellison, A. T. Davisson, Donald Mackay, S. P. Pettit, Henry McCord, Phoebe Schol¬ ey, Agnea Earon and Stella Foreman. The clubs and fraternities committee, E. S. Keogh, G. B. Hunt, Harry Bar¬ asch. School Activities, C. D. Baker, Agnes Earon, George DuBois, David Sutherland, jr. Meetings Commit¬ tee. John M. Harrington. Parade Com¬ mittee, E. N. Edwards, H. R. Smith. Stationary and Supplies, Harold Smith James Sutphin, Arthur Frank. Pub¬ licity and Press, James E. Stiles, C. H. Kerr, Fred Howell. American Le gion, Richard Remsen, Harold Brown, Frank Devlin. Churches, J. Sidney Gould, E. A. Burnes, R. H. Scott, C. H. Miller, W. F. Coffey, J. L. OToole, Erwin Dennet. The headquarters of the committees will be the village of¬ fice and the next meeting wiil be Sat¬ urday, May 29.
There has been some comment on the question of whether or not it would be better to have a community house instead cf a library. There are many reasons why a library is best. For one thing, a community house would be used the most for gcod times, danc
tears, one suit, one hat, one. front | "Run along son fh«. ^..k i ' '','''''''¦ wheel, one lamp; and the following, the horse «nH *"""''' ''''
tpmnorarilv Hisnhlv nna far-o f«,« I "no miSS you, and horses
are worth i250 apiece."
navy'officV"""*^' ''^*'"' '° ^^"^ er 10 the extreme, and prevented the | suits. He enhllf^T"/* i*".** ^*"*'' ^^' shocking of some young people who "p-„,K ./"""^^f "» landsman on the
"• **"=- ~ "•—" ..T,-\ ^ '='»'v«rted cruiser, and
isen-ed on her until he was discharged
Civil War was Commander Ward and lhe was killed on the "Vt^.^t. .,' , 'a few foof , rreeborn," onlv
u.o.. . ^ turned loose in the into
Uruns with good effect. ^'*'^' "'"^
\ur,A .^atter.son came to New"Ynrk
¦Sie'miralt^f^iTl.l'dr"^ gns very ^'enr'A"?L°'?oif^eS^^^^
terjiis.ne,s, catering to a"large°c',1:_ . "V^'-'e Bill" Patterson is verv «,.f
AMERICAN LEGION EMBLEM.
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of
WARS ARE UNITED
American Legions of 1866 and
1917 to Celebrate This Me-
morial Day Together
The William Clinton Story Post of the American Legion will unite with the D. B. P. Mott Post of the G A. R. in celebrating Memorial Day in their church services and graveyard cere¬ monies at the Presbyterian Church.
The two Posts, representing the Le¬ gion of 18G6 and the Legion of 1917, will also co-operate in decorating the graves located in Freeport.
The.7 'will march to the cemetery and after hte parade the, Woman's Re¬ lief Corpa will serve refreshments, i
Rev. J. Sidney Gould will officiate at „ The D. B. P. Mott Poat of the G. A. the church and has extended an invi- R- was organized, in December, 1804, tation to all ex-service jjien of Free-j""'' was named .after a. Mr.s. Mott port and vicinity to attend. |Wh„.,j liomc itood on the properly I
For the church services on Sunday, ij*"' living n at the present lime. She May 30, the organizations will meet i n"*i two uoys, fourteen and fifteen at the G. A. R. Headquarters on Mer-1 y^''"^ of at'e. who -,eeders on Sunday, but whether from fear of genial Judge Johnson or for other reasons, they did not al] come to pay the price of fast driving. The cases on hand wc-* qnickly disposed with a series of five dollar bills as each person was fiiujd that amount and allowed to deport.
The following r>ad burners were pra-«ent: Arthur Fox, Brooklyn; L. J. -Gillen, Hempiitead (Officer William-
¦Miji; Aa|«str Nillong, Richmond Hill; ..„
hnd Joaeph Schweitzer, of Lindenhorst.j And so it goes, ««ch year'aor ranks
EXHIBIT OF SCHOOL WORK
On Jane 9 at 3:30 p. m., in the Grove Street School, there, will be an exhibit of work done by papils of ali the schools, to which yoa are cordially tn- •itedl.
Thia will include: Sendsg, cooking, manoaj train^ig and irawing.
Ligbt rcCraawMRitf will aa served.
ent time wdlv ha^ twentyeight mem¬ bers, and only about half of these are able to come to meetinga.
I came here forty-nine years ago and at that time there were only abuut five hundred people in the village. We elected John Anderson as our firat commander and several othera served a term, but for the last twenty-five years 1 have had tlje post.and it is one that requires a great deal of time and attention tu a mass of details.
After the war there were men who came home in the flush of victory who would not claim any pension or other benefits that the Government had of¬ fered. When these men died it fell upon 'his comradea to keep his widow from want. The funds of the Post were insufficient and Archie Wallace, who was a member of the "Town Board at that time, went before the Board and explained the situation, with the result that an appropriation was made a part of the town budget, for the use of dependent veterans of the Civil War. Sometimes we use all of it and more, too, and sometimes we 'are able to refund a part of the amount, but it was due to Archie Wallace that we iiave been able to help our comrades at all.
Thia Memorial Day we are plannln,^ to flag the graves in about eigh ceme¬ teries and two hundred and fifty flags have been purchased for the purpose. We find ourselves, handicapped to a certain extent in our preparations. (We do not wiah to quote Mr. Patter son on the following, but in the greai rush of things of iate years, the vet¬ erans of other wars have been for¬ gotten to a certain extent, and the of¬ fers of antomobiles on Decoration Day have not been as numerous :is in oth^ er years.)
It is expected that we shall visit El¬ mont, Rockville Centre, Freeport and up Jerusalem way this vear, and that reminda me of an incident that hap¬ pened on another Memorial Day. W w«i!re asked to come to Rockaway and visit our comrades, and apon arriv¬ ing there, ^ked for a grave over which we could conduct our services. One was assigned to as and latar on a man from New YoA notified oa that our simple flag was wortli a good deal to him for the grave we Iwd decorated was that of his father. *Wt hiid re¬ membered when he had forgotten!
.re becoming thinaar and tfaiimer an I wo arc being r^^rated to tbe dusty shelves of the paat. Tba 4ays ef '61 are days that wili aevar Ueome dim to OS, The fighting fn those days of the frar was as fierea aa the world has ever keen and the loma at Prmrpart did their bit gloriously, even as ihey have In tha Qnpat war of the vorU just
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